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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | H. G. Wells | Wells wrote about characters who defied conventional morality. In his own life, he married twice, and had a busy extramarital sexual career. He writes about this himself in the second volume of his autobiography (published... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Nancy Mitford | Jessica
, the sister who followed Unity in age, eloped in her teens with a still younger cousin who was off to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Nancy and her husband were despatched as... |
Friends, Associates | Sybille Bedford | SB
said she grew up with very little knowledge of people her own age, and in friendships and love affairs tended to seek out those of at least ten years older than herself. Bedford, Sybille. Quicksands. Counterpoint, 2005. 126 |
Friends, Associates | Colette | Colette
knew all the literary and intellectual world of Paris, including André Gide
, Maurice Ravel
, and Jean Cocteau
. Martha Gellhorn
was known to her as Marty. Castle, Terry. “Yes you, sweetheart”. London Review of Books, pp. 3 - 8. 5 Colette,. Lettres à Sa Fille, 1916-1953. Jouvenel, Anne deEditor , Gallimard, 2003. 527 |
Textual Features | Sybille Bedford | Having just met Aldous Huxley
, SB
made her work what she called diluted Aldous Huxley—Aldous Huxley and plain water. Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin, 1990. 314 |